Josh Hawley

I think Missourians get it.

They get what's going on here.

They're like, why are the Democrats doing this?

I mean, why are they closing everything?

By the way, every Missourian is still getting taxed to pay for this government that now is not working.

You know, this is a basic we the people moment.

Does the government work for us, or are we just here to fund this government no matter what it does?

You know, is the government just going to be shut down for months on end, but we're going to keep paying our taxes because we really serve the government?

Is that the message?

That seems to be the Democrats' message.

I don't think that's what the people in my state believe.

And they want people up here in D.C.

to get to work, you know, get off their butts, get to work, start solving some problems here, start getting jobs back, get wages up, get inflation down, get the cost of health care down, put power back in the hands of working people.

That's what we need to be doing.

Democrats are going in the opposite direction.

Well, I haven't seen what he's proposed yet, but I just say this to the Democrats.

I mean, listen, they're all crying about the fact, oh, Donald Trump now has more power than ever.

I mean, you guys shut down the government.

I mean, you can't have it both ways.

You can't whine and fuss and say, oh, the president is acting like a dictator.